Last match day at the Judo Cadet World Championships, on stage on the Sarajevo tatami. In Bosnian land, the program has provided for male -90 kg and +90 kg and female -70 kg and +70 kg. At home Italy it was possible to celebrate since the number of podiums was fiveimproving the four top-3s of the 2019 world championship in Almaty (Turkey).
To conquer the fifth metal for the Bel Paese was Serena Ondei, silver in the -70 kg. An exceptional path that of the young Lombard, able to reach the final act after defeating the Canadian Kiera Burtthe French Theophila Darbes-Takam and beaten the Kazakh in the penultimate act Azhar Askhat. The latter was a success at the Golden Score, where Ondei was very good at putting the rival under pressure. Unfortunately the gold did not arrive because Uzbek Barchinoy Kodirova turned out to be superior.
As for the rest of the Italian troop, Morgan De Paoli was at the starting line of +70 kg and, after the clear statement against the Canadian Marianna Karashad to surrender to Azerbaijan Nigar Suleymanova for ippon. A category in which the French Grace-Esther Mienandi Lahou she won gold, beating her compatriot in the Final for absolute success Celia Cancan (silver). The bronzes were conquered by the Japanese Mika Nakano and from the Mongolian Nyam-Erdene Batsuuri.
Judo, Savita Russo wins the bronze in the -57 kg of the Cadet World Championships in Sarajevo
In the men’s -90 kg, without blues at the start, the gold was won by the Hungarian Peter Kenderesiwhile in the +90 kg, without Italians, it was the Canadian John Jr Messe A Bessong to make the loud voice. The blue selection therefore concluded, as mentioned, with five medals: 1 gold with Gaia Massimetti (52), a silver with Serena Ondei (70), three bronzes with Rebecca Valeriani (44), Federico Bosis (66), Savita Russo (57), two fifth places (Ilaria Finestrone, 48 and Michela Terranova, 52) and a seventh (Francesco Sansonetti, 81).
RESULTS OF THE DAY
70: 1. Barchinoy Kodirova (Uzb), 2.Serena Ondei (Ita)3. Ingrid Nilsson (Swe) and Lila Mazzarino (Fra)
90: 1. Peter Kenderesi (Hun), 2. Abbos Shermakhmatova (Uzb), 3. Oleksii Boldyriev (Ukr) and Milan Bulaja (Srb)
+70: 1. Grace-Esther Mienandi Lahou (Fr.), 2. Celia Cancan (Fr.), 3. Mika Nakano (Jpn) and Nyam-Erdene Batsuuri (Mgl).
+90: 1. John Jr. Messe A Bessong (Can), 2. Gabriel Santos (Bra), 3. Dota Arai (Jpn) and Bogdan Peter (Rou)
Photo: Federjudo
